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Force and folly

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An edition of Force and Folly (1968)

Force and folly

essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas.

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M.I.T. Press
Language
English
Pages
342

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Force and Folly: Essays on Foreign Affairs and the History of Ideas
June 15, 1971, The MIT Press
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Force and Folly
March 1969, MIT Press
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Table of Contents

War and peace in the nuclear age.
International political communication: elite vs. mass.
The political value of arms.
Revolutionary War.
Soviet atomic blackmail and the North Atlantic Alliance.
The Suez crises.
Germany in American foreign policy.
The Hallstein doctrine.
On war games.
Some observations on political gaming.
The pitfalls of political humor.
The fool and social order.
Court and tavern in the German Baroque novel.
Simplicissimus, the irreverent fool.
Courage, the adventuress.
Grimmelshausen's laughter.

Edition Notes

Bibliographical footnotes.
"The papers presented here were written in the last ten years, so that this book may be regarded as a sequel to Social order and the risks of war ... first published in 1952."

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Cambridge, Mass
Series
M.I.T. studies in comparative politics, M.I.T. studies in comparative politics series.

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Dewey Decimal Class
327/.1/09045
Library of Congress
D844 .S68

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Pagination
vii, 342 p.
Number of pages
342

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5621466M
Internet Archive
forcefollyessays0000spei
LCCN
68030753

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